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Carl Linnaeus
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Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Read More ›
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Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser

At first glance the problem might seem far removed from the design detecting rules William Dembski laid out in his Cambridge University Press monograph. Read More ›
John West
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The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer

"ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers." Read More ›
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What’s “Natural”? Engineering Creates a Conundrum for Evolutionists

I do not know Dr. Merilä’s stance on human origins, but it is a safe bet that he denies intelligent design, and believes humans evolved from other animals. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
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William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Read More ›
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Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›
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Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Read More ›
William Wordsworth
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The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›
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Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Read More ›

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